From left to right, Julia Bruno, Katie Southard, Arina Stoianova, Katherine Wendler and Liz Linkletter pose for a photo in front of their research poster.
A&S Students Shine at Annual Undergraduate Research Festival
Nearly 140 undergraduate students showcased their academic work at the College of Arts and Sciences鈥 (A&S鈥) annual Undergraduate Research Festival on April 17 in the Life Sciences Complex’s Milton Atrium. Faculty, staff, peers and guests鈥攊ncluding members of the Dean鈥檚 Advisory Board, who received 鈥攖urned out to see the breadth and quality of student scholarship on display.
This year’s festival featured projects spanning an impressive range of disciplines, with titles from 鈥淣ew Frontiers in Forensic DNA Analysis Evaluating Single Cell Sequencing鈥 (Ava Polak 鈥26) to 鈥溾楩orgive My Northern Attitude鈥: Are Northeasterners Really That Rude?鈥 (Abram Speek 鈥26). Together, the projects reflected A&S’ commitment to research that bridges the sciences and the humanities, examining the world’s most pressing questions through rigorous, creative inquiry.
With 99 poster exhibitions and 26 faculty-moderated presentations, this year’s festival continued its annual tradition of being among the largest of any such event at 性视界 University.
Students from across A&S participated, representing departments and programs including African American studies, art and music histories, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, communication sciences and disorders, Earth and environmental sciences, forensics, human development and family science, languages, literatures, and linguistics, mathematics, neuroscience, philosophy, physics, and psychology.
To learn more and check out interviews with student researchers, visit the A&S website:
